1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2992-1

USN-2992-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Publication date

6 June 2016

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.

Releases

Packages

  • oxide-qt - Web browser engine for Qt (QML plugin)

Details

An unspecified security issue was discovered in Blink. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions.
(CVE-2016-1673)

An issue was discovered with Document reattachment in Blink in some
circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin
restrictions. (CVE-2016-1675)

A type confusion bug was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-1677)

A heap overflow was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening
a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
cause a...

An unspecified security issue was discovered in Blink. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions.
(CVE-2016-1673)

An issue was discovered with Document reattachment in Blink in some
circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin
restrictions. (CVE-2016-1675)

A type confusion bug was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-1677)

A heap overflow was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening
a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2016-1678)

A use-after-free was discovered in the V8ValueConverter implementation in
Chromium in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2016-1679)

A use-after-free was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2016-1680)

A security issue was discovered in ServiceWorker registration in Blink in
some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially
crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass
Content Security Policy (CSP) protections. (CVE-2016-1682)

An out-of-bounds memory access was discovered in libxslt. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service (application crash)
or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1683)

An integer overflow was discovered in libxslt. If a user were tricked in
to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially
exploit this to cause a denial of service (application crash or resource
consumption). (CVE-2016-1684)

An out-of-bounds read was discovered in the regular expression
implementation in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially
crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a
denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-1688)

A heap overflow was discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2016-1689)

A heap overflow was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2016-1691)

It was discovered that Blink permits cross-origin loading of stylesheets
by a service worker even when the stylesheet download has an incorrect
MIME type. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin
restrictions. (CVE-2016-1692)

Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial
of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1695,
CVE-2016-1703)

It was discovered that Blink does not prevent frame navigation during
DocumentLoader detach operations. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
bypass same-origin restrictions. (CVE-2016-1697)

A parameter sanitization bug was discovered in the devtools subsystem in
Blink. An attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass intended
access restrictions. (CVE-2016-1699)

An out-of-bounds read was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in
to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially
exploit this to cause a denial of service (application crash).
(CVE-2016-1702)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 xenial liboxideqtcore0 –  1.15.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
15.10 wily liboxideqtcore0 –  1.15.7-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
14.04 trusty liboxideqtcore0 –  1.15.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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